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...Lambe is one of the growing number of physics teachers who believe that students should take first things first. Since the world of matter is made up of invisible particles, students should start with a study of such particles. His elementary course, which he developed with Co-Lecturer John Fowler, begins with the description of the 16 known basic particles, including such oddities as antineutrinos. But the course is mostly concerned with the commonest particles-electrons, protons and neutrons. As far as possible, classical laws are taught as the gross manifestation of actions and reactions between these invisible particles...
Particles do not, of course, behave like little round balls, so Lambe and Fowler start telling their students at once about the four forces (nuclear, electric, weak interaction and gravitational) that combine to weave the fundamental particles into more familiar kinds of matter. A baseball, for instance, is a very large number of particles held together by nuclear forces (which hold the particles together to form atoms) and electrical forces (which hold the atoms together to form molecules). The earth is an even larger number of particles, held together chiefly by gravitation...
Bugaboos. Very soon Lambe and Fowler are forced to grapple with the bugaboos of modern physics-relativity and quantum mechanics-which are often considered too difficult for students who have not had long training in mathematics. Lambe and Fowler believe that although relativity and quantum mechanics may seem "against common sense," they are really the physical facts of life, and had better be brought in quickly. Relativity is lightly touched on in the third week of the course. The relativistic principle that the mass of a body increases with its speed is used to explain why certain particles, e.g., neutrinos...
Externals. In Spartanburg, S.C., Wilbur Fowler was acquitted on a drunken-driving charge after telling the court that the odor of alcohol came from his hair tonic, not from liquor...
...rich men. Among them: Cleveland Inventor John C. Lincoln, who built the now-famous Camelback Inn on the lower slopes of Camelback Mountain; Chicago Chewing Gum Magnate William Wrigley, who founded the fabulous Arizona Biltmore and started a golf course colony nearby; International Harvester Heir Fowler McCormick, who went a little farther east into Paradise Valley to start what is now the richest winter residential area in the state...